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Copperhill is an incorporated city in Polk County in the extreme southeastern corner of Tennessee, directly on the Georgia state line.

The city was founded in 1890 and incorporated in 1913.

Copperhill was originally known as McCays; when the Louisville and Nashville Railroad combined the area's two train stations and dubbed the new depot 'Copper Hill,' city officials changed the name to Copperhill in 1911.

Its twin city is McCaysville, Georgia, directly across the river — called the Toccoa River in Georgia and the Ocoee River in Tennessee — and the two communities function as a single town.

The Tennessee–Georgia line cuts diagonally across Copperhill's streets, where it is marked with a blue line, and passes through buildings; homes and businesses on the Copperhill side use area code 423, while the McCaysville side uses 706.

The 2020 census counted 443 people in Copperhill, living in 212 households that included 97 families, with 289 housing units in the city.

Copperhill stands in the Copper Basin, where copper was discovered in 1843 and mined from the 1840s until the last mine closed in 1987.

During the Civil War, the Copper Basin's mines supplied about 90 percent of the Confederate Army's copper.

Early smelting burned sulfur off the ore in open roasts fueled by the valley's timber, and the resulting acid rain left the basin a denuded red-clay landscape often compared to the surface of Mars until a multimillion-dollar reforestation effort restored its greenery.

The Tennessee Copper Company built its smelter at Copperhill in 1899, and the Ducktown Basin Museum, established in 1978 at the Burra Burra Mine site in nearby Ducktown, chronicles the basin's mining history.